Originally Posted by
Ginseng
"Demise of frequent moves" - rubbish
Like I said, someone would be along to argue against the obvious.
If you enjoy the "good fortune" of your poster's lack of a need to move you, why shouldn't the Treasury enjoy the resultant lack of a need for your bin lids to be housed and educated away from home?
You say it's nice to have the option even though you might not genuinely need it.
THEY say it's nice (cheap)
not to have the option even though you might need it.
It's a perk really, not a right, and like all perks it is going to vanish, sooner or later. I'd lay money on it, cheap housing, free uniforms, home to duty, will all slowly disappear as someone in HM Counting House says with blissful ignorance "Civvies don't get this, why should our services?". Civvy police are buying certain items of their own uniform in some forces now.
Remember the good old days when the wife and kids were cared for by military folk in the on-base med centre?
Delete "Medical care", insert "Education".